Re: Made-to-be-Borged Posthumans

Logan Kearsley wrote:
Suppose you're designing a posthuman with the intention of making at
extremely easy to add cyborg-bits to. What would it come out like?
[snip]

Any comments / other ideas?

I have to wonder, if you have the technology to genetically overhaul an
organism to preadapt it to borging, mightn't you also have the
technology to encode growable molecular machines into the DNA (or some
kind of parallel to DNA), so that as your seahorse grows, it also grows
the mechanical parts? Maybe it doesn't grow the giant metal claw and
sonar targetting array, but it might grow the mounting sockets, fused
with the bone and equiped with their own nerves and such, needed for
one. And if you can do that, you could imprint these growths with
chemical signatures the organic immune system will recognize as
friendly.

--
DJensen

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